An Angler's Paradise. 33 
In Germany, too, fish culture is being carried on with 
considerable success, and trout are now extensively grown for the 
market. The late Herr Max von dem Borne did much for fish 
culture in Germany. On his estate of Berneuchen in the 
Province of Brandenburg, he commenced a fish-cultural estab- 
lishment in 1876, a short description of which may be interesting. 
The water supply is drawn froma stream known as the Mietzel 
by means of an aqueduct, and it is thus exposed to considerable 
variations of temperature. During winter it goes down to freezing 
point, whereas in summer it goes up to 70° F., and occasionally a 
temperature as high as 77° F. is reached. 
It is carefully filtered before being allowed to do duty in the 
hatching tanks, which are made of concrete, and are used for 
hatching the ova of Sa/monide. These tanks are provided with 
covers. Eggs of the Corvegonide are also dealt with in a special’ 
apparatus designed by the proprietor. Six different American 
Salmonide have been introduced, as well as the black bass 
(Grystes nigricans), the American catfish (Amiurus nebulosus), 
and others. There are now many other establishments prospering , 
in the country. That of Herr Siegfried Jaffé at Sandfort is a 
thriving place with thirty ponds or more, and an extensive 
hatchery where many kinds of trout are successfully cultivated. 
Mr. Jaffé tells me that a very large number of trout are sent to 
market in a year for eating purposes, and they are only grown up 
to a comparatively small size, as they are then more valuable as 
articles of food, being younger and more tender, and possessing a 
finer flavour. With regard to the eating quality of trout, for which 
purpose a large number are killed annually at the Solway Fishery, 
I can quite bear this out, the best flavoured trout being those 
running from half a pound to a pound. 
Strange it is that man, who has tunnelled through mountains, 
who has bored into the depths of the earth in search of mineral 
treasures, who has drained many a treacherous swamp, and caused 
waste and barren lands to yield plenteous crops of corn, or turned 
them into rich pastures ; who has invented steam engines, and by 
their means been enabled to traverse oceans and continents in an 
incredibly short space of time ; who has even made the tremendous 
agent electricity itself subservient to his will, and made so many 
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